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Alumni Association 2021 Virtual Awards Celebration

Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:00 – 8:05 pm ET

Celebration Schedule 6:45pm ET 7:00pm

Preshow Musical Introduction*

Robert Hitz, Peab ’82 7:04pm

7:06pm 7:11pm 7:21pm 7:31pm

7:34pm 7:40pm 7:42pm

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8:05pm

Welcome

Susan deMuth, Associate Vice President for Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving Executive Director, JHAA Introduction of Community Champion Awards / page 2

Lou Bartolo, Nurs ’18 Introduction of Outstanding Recent Graduate Awards / page 6

Natalie Draisin, A&S ’10, BSPH ’15, Bus ’15 Introduction of Heritage Awards / page 14

Rhonda Glover Reese, Ed ’02 Intermission and Musical Interlude

Student members of the Octopodes, Johns Hopkins’ oldest a cappella group and Alumni Association Student Grant recipient Introduction of Global Achievement Awards / page 21

Daniela Kaisth, SAIS ’89, A&S ’90 Introduction of Public Service Awards / page 26

Reginald Bannerman, Nurs ’97, ’99, ’03 Introduction of Distinguished Alumnus/a Awards / page 28

Ralph Hruban, Med ’85 Joseph Yoon, A&S ’00 Closing Remarks

Susan deMuth Anika Penn, SAIS ’10, President, the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Awards celebration concludes *Robert Hitz, Peab ’82, composer, pianist and master teacher, composed the musical introduction, “True Blue”, as well as the short piano music between some of tonight’s award categories. He is the Peabody representative to the Johns Hopkins Alumni Council. To learn more about Robert and his work, visit https://www.roberthitz.com/biography. Full descriptions of our awards recipients’ accomplishments are included in this program, and on the alumni association website at https://alumni.jhu.edu/awards.

Community Champion Award Recognizes outstanding contributions that address critical social, economic and environmental needs throughout our society and communities, including local communities. Both individuals and groups are eligible. The nominee(s) may be either Johns Hopkins alumni (individual or group) who have impacted any community OR non-alumni (individual or group) who have impacted a Johns Hopkins Institution.

Lee Bone, BSPH ’77 Lee Bone is responsible for the success of hundreds of community initiatives, including sponsored projects, research and service-based care, all aimed at improving health disparities. She serves on committees, teaches, garners program sponsorship, and champions community based participatory services and research. Her remarkable skill is in helping the community identify its own needs and in accessing Hopkins and other resources to attend to social needs and assure quality care. Lee has worked with East Baltimore churches, Baltimore City Schools, the Health Department, Baltimore CONNECT , and state and professional agencies. Notably, she has fostered the growth of successful community health worker training programs and community experiences for Hopkins students. Currently, she directs the Hopkins undergraduate public health program community health course. Lee is known by everyone at Hopkins and in the community, and is universally respected and trusted. She is passionate, relentless, and action oriented. Most importantly, she is “out there” at health screenings, training, and community events. She is a hands-on partner with the community who believes first in community empowerment. Peter Kannam, Ed ’99 Peter Kannam serves as the principal of the Elmer A. Henderson Johns Hopkins Partnership School, also known as Henderson-Hopkins. Kannam began his career as a teacher at Baltimore’s Lombard Middle School. After receiving his master’s degree in school administration and supervision from the School of Education in 1999, he became executive director of Teach for America Baltimore. He served for four years as executive director of New Leaders for New Schools Maryland, where he launched programs to recruit and train principals for Baltimore City and

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Prince George’s County school systems; and as New England regional director for Catapult Learning. In 2010, he co-founded the education nonprofit America Achieves, which partners with organizations to create clear pathways for economic advancement and civic engagement. He has also served as a member and vice chair for the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners. Kannam has been principal of HendersonHopkins since 2018. He says when the outbreak of the coronavirus first started back in mid-March, he knew it was going to make the situation worse for their students and their families, many of whom rely on the school for food and services. Under his leadership, Henderson-Hopkins has partnered with organizations such as the Maryland Food Bank to distribute food and supplies to its community every Friday. Since March, the school has distributed over 842,577.29 lbs. of food to 21,154 families through walk up and delivery. Katherine Phillips, Nurs ’10, BSPH ’12 Katie Phillips is a Nurse Practitioner Medical Director who helped The Esperanza Center set up a Bilingual COVID-19 hotline in March so that immigrant patients without a doctor could get linked to SARSCoV-2 testing. The hotline has fielded over 5,000 calls and has been a real lifeline. When Hopkins set up its SARS- CoV-2 community testing at Sacred Heart Church, it used the Esperanza hotline to register patients for testing and as a resource for patients to call with questions, worsening symptoms, etc. After starting with a volunteer workforce, they have now hired community health workers who are fielding calls and linking people to food and cash assistance. “ Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much” — HELEN KELLER

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Libi Rice, Bus ’12 Libi Rice is the head of The Executive Leadership Council’s (ELC ) communication, marketing, branding, and external affairs initiatives. She is a member of the ELC ’s leadership team and responsible for leading the strategy, management and implementation of all communication-related efforts. During Libi’s seven years at the ELC , she has been instrumental in implementing ELC ’s purpose and mission – opening channeling of opportunity for Black executives to positively impact business and communities. This includes developing initiatives targeted for executives, mid-level managers, and students. Libi not only contributes to her community in a professional sense. She tirelessly works to make an impact in her personal and local communities. Libi was a key champion in advocating for the ELC to support the Dr. James Calvin Scholarship at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, which will provide scholarship support with a preference for underrepresented minority students at Carey. Additionally, she spoke at the Carey Business School’s 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Summit. Libi is also a Charter Member of the Ambassador Donor Program for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture and past board member of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

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Sarah Szanton, Nurs ’93, ’07 A nationally renowned researcher, leader and health equity advocate, Dr. Sarah Szanton, PhD, RN, FAAN , and Patricia M. Davidson Health Equity and Social Justice Endowed Professor, was named Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (SON ) in August 2021. Szanton took a non-traditional path to nursing, first becoming a lobbyist to fight for reproductive health. Working on Capitol Hill, she frequently encountered nurse practitioners advocating for their populations and decided to change careers, inspired by the deep understanding that nurses had of the communities with which they worked. After working with migrant workers, people experiencing homelessness, and providing house calls to under resourced communities, she decided to get her PhD. Szanton is best known for co-developing the visionary CAPABLE program after years spent providing house calls predominately to low income, African American older adults in West Baltimore. The program, which combines handyman services with nursing and occupational therapy to improve mobility, reduce disability, and decrease healthcare costs, has been researched and scaled to 45 places in 23 States, and is currently expanding through several policy mechanisms as Medicare Advantage and Value Based care. Szanton also has a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A prolific health equity researcher, she has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and received many awards for her work. A Johns Hopkins alumna, Szanton earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the SON , a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Maryland, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins. She joined the SON in 2007 as an assistant professor, was promoted to full professor in 2017, and became an endowed professor in 2018.

Outstanding Recent Graduate Award Honors alumni who have received their Hopkins degree in the last 10 years and demonstrated outstanding achievement or service in their professional or volunteer life.

Alejandro Diasgranados, Ed ’18, ’19 Lauded by district leaders and national education organizations— and loved by families and colleagues—Alejandro Diasgranados is an educator who empowers his students to become agents of change. A second grade English and social studies teacher at Aiton Elementary school in Northeast Washington, D.C., Diasgranados was named the 2021 D.C. Teacher of the Year by Mayor Muriel Bowser, who praised his outstanding leadership and commitment to student achievement. The award also singled him out for devising projects that inspire in his students “a joy of learning that has translated into advocacy for issues important throughout the District.” For one of those projects, Diasgranados won a grant from the Washington Football Team that enabled him to install an onsite school laundry center for families to use for free. In another, his students wrote letters to Washington Capitals star Devante Smith-Pelly, who was inspired to make a surprise visit to their class. During the coronavirus pandemic, he was commended for assuring that his students were engaged, using multiple phone applications to connect with them and their families and partnering with Drew Barrymore to provide his community with 265 laptops to address the digital divide during COVID-19. He also recently met with U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. Miguel Cardona and Deputy Secretary of Education, Cindy Marten to discuss how the Department of Education can help provide equitable and inclusive learning environments for students across the nation. “Mr. Dias,” as he is known by his students, was also selected as the National University Teacher of the Year, which recognized him for “going above and beyond for his students, using his own story as inspiration to show them that they can succeed.” The most fitting example – in 2018, he brought his entire class to his Johns Hopkins School of Education graduation ceremony to see him receive his master’s degree in education. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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Allysa Dittmar, A&S ’14, BSPH ’17 Elyse Heob, BSPH ’18, Bus ’18 Aaron Hsu, A&S ’14, BSPH ’15 Inez Lam, Engr ’16 Through their company, ClearMask, LLC , Allysa Dittmar, Elyse Heob, Aaron Hsu, and Inez Lam designed the world’s first FDA -cleared, fully transparent surgical mask, and have sold 17,000,000 masks worldwide since April 2020. Their transparent masks are an equitable, accessible, and safe alternative to traditional masks for individuals who rely on visual communication to communicate and connect with others. Their impact has expanded exponentially during the pandemic, removing barriers in communities and workplaces via national governments, state and federal agencies, hospitals, clinics, universities, schools, and many more. While their work is particularly relevant today as communities use masks to slow the spread of COVID-19 , the product’s concept has a deeply personal origin for co-founder Allysa Dittmar. Allysa, who was born profoundly deaf, realized the need for this product when she was unexpectedly left unable to communicate with her surgical team. She and her team developed hundreds of prototypes to maximize clarity, comfort, and human connection, and have expanded product lines to offer a consumer mask and a FDA-cleared mask in different sizes. Critical investments in their work have come through awards and grants, including support from the Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab. Elizabeth Galibut, Bus ’15 Elizabeth has been recognized as a 30 under 30 in Venture Capital by Forbes in 2018. She earned this distinction by starting A-Level Capital while a student at Carey, and has grown that student-led venture capital group into two Venture Capital Funds supporting companies that have

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a JHU Founder. The second fund in fundraising now is on-track to be more than $2 million. Fund I has had tremendous success supporting JHU Founders and Entrepreneurs. Additionally, Elizabeth founded the first female-founded venture capital firm in Los Angeles - SoGal Ventures. Their first fund raised $15 million. She and SoGal Ventures have been featured in multiple publications, including CNBC, BBC , Reuters, Fortune, Forbes, and others. Timian Godfrey, Nurs ’19 Timian Godfrey is the first Native American to graduate from the Doctor of Nursing Practice Executive program at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She was selected as a Jonas Veterans Healthcare Scholar and the recipient of the Nurse Leader Executive Mentorship award. She also simultaneously received her Public Health Training Certificate for American Indian Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health during her time as a doctorate student. Timian served as a leader and mentor in both programs and graduated with honors. Since graduating, she continues to pursue academic and professional growth. Timian was selected as a scholar in the Native Research Ambassador Program at the University of Kansas medical school because of her keen interest in research and policy development. Additionally, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development selected Timian to receive the Top 40 Under 40 Award; she was honored as the Young Alumna of the Year at her alma mater, Southern Utah University; and she received the 2021 American Association of Nurse Practitioners State Excellence Award. She is currently pursuing her post DNP to PhD degree at Arizona State University. She is on faculty at the University of Arizona School of Nursing, Community & Systems Health Science Division, where she is making a significant impact on the health of indigenous people. 8

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Brandon Johnson, BSPH ’12 Brandon Johnson, MH, MCHES , is a tireless advocate for positive mental health and suicide prevention services for youth and adults across the country. Brandon earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Morgan State University in 2008 and a Master of Health Science Degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. Currently, he serves as a Public Health Advisor at the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA ) in the Suicide Prevention Branch at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS ). In this role, Brandon serves as a Government Project Officer (GPO ) for various suicide prevention grant programs that target youth, adults, and health care systems. Brandon is also the GPO for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC ), which provides suicide-specific materials, webinars, and training to organizations and communities all over the country working to prevent suicides. Brandon is also the Co-Lead of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Faith Communities Task Force, and serves as the subject matter expert in suicide among Black people within the agency. He has led numerous projects to develop resources and materials to specifically prevent suicide among African-American youth, including representing SAMHSA on the 2020 HHS Report to Congress on African American Youth Suicide. Brandon is the creator of “The Black Mental Wellness Lounge,” a YouTube channel dedicated to discussing Black mental health and healing. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — U N K N OW N

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” — MICHELLE OBAMA

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Vikram Krishnasamy, BSPH ’14 Vikram Krishnasamy is a CDC medical officer working to address America’s drug overdose crisis. His work has involved collaborating with law enforcement and public health partners to assist patients on opioid therapy affected by clinic closures. He also developed an online training program for public health partners that gave them tools to understand the overdose epidemic. In October 2020, he was awarded the Emerging Leaders Service to America Medal for his work from the Partnership for Public Service. Vikram holds board certifications in internal medicine and preventive medicine, and also completed CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He continues to provide clinical care in a free clinic in Clarkston, Georgia. “…a problem well put is half solved.” – JOHN DEWEY

Pava LaPere, A&S ’19 Pava LaPere is a community-focused young entrepreneur who has made waves both as a student at Hopkins as well as a recent alumna. As early as her freshman year, she began founding ventures that still thrive at Hopkins today, and since her graduation in 2019, she has only become more driven and prolific. Pava founded her first venture, TCO Labs, Inc., as a freshman hoping to kindle her peers’ interest in the Baltimore entrepreneurial ecosystem. As a sophomore, she founded The Hatchery at Johns Hopkins, the only undergraduate student incubator offering mentorship, education, and access to resources. In her senior year, Pava created Innov8MD , a nonprofit existing outside of Johns Hopkins that connects student entrepreneur leaders at 15 Maryland colleges and universities. Her final student venture, EcoMap Technologies, Inc., exists as a living map that links Baltimore entrepreneurs to resources in their

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area by using AI and algorithms. Though she had already founded two entrepreneurial groups to support students on their innovation journeys, after her graduation she founded two additional accelerator programs at JHTV ’s FastForward U—the FFU Spark Accelerator and the FFU el Accelerator programs. The Spark program caters to early-stage ventures and provides education on entrepreneurship basics, while the FFU el program guides later-stage ventures and prepares students to get their startups on the market and in front of investors. Pava is a dedicated volunteer who consistently serves on career panels and participates in university activities, and she is always eager to share her wisdom and insights. Ayushi Mishra, Engr ’16 Ayushi Mishra, Forbes 30 Under 30 (Asia), is a Biomedical Engineer and holds an MS Engineering Management from Johns Hopkins University. She started her first venture, Marigold Health, while still in graduate school. It is a digital health platform with Artificial Intelligence to scale peer support and therapy. Marigold Health is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and Rock Health foundation. In late 2017, she moved to India to work on DronaMaps, a company cofounded by her longtime friend and fellow Hopkins student, Utkarsh Singh. DronaMaps specializes in large-scale mapping with drones and extraction of geospatial analytics from it. Ayushi is passionate about using emerging technology to positively impact the human condition. DronaMaps has been used for drone-based mapping of over 100 villages and 10 urban areas across India. They pioneered the integration of drone maps with existing enterprise giants like ESRI and SAP , and their contribution to Artificial Intelligence was recognized by Economic Times in a ceremony chaired by Steve Wozniak. During the COVID-19 Crisis, DronaMaps volunteered their platform to seven states across India acting as a 11

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command and control center. The deployment was inspired by Hopkins COVID-19 dashboards, but ended up providing deeper analytics, like patient tracking, healthcare infrastructure tracking, containment and hotspot analysis, and predictions on spatial and epidemiological spread of the disease at a district level for almost 130 districts across India. Ayushi has been named by Vogue Magazine as one of eight women in STEM leading the battle against COVID-19 in India. “Disciplinary silos, finding patterns where others see none.” “Finding, envisioning, and then enforcing a structure on chaos, is the only skill that matters in this day and age. It requires flying above disciplinary silos, finding patterns where others see none.” Adegoke Olubusi, Engr ’16 Adegoke “Goke” Olubusi is co-founder and CEO of Helium Health, a healthcare technology provider working in several African countries to accelerate the continent’s healthcare field transition to a data and technology driven healthcare system. For decades, African hospitals had been operating entirely manually. The result was a major lack in accurate data about the patients they were treating. The situation prompted Goke and two other entrepreneurs to launch Helium Health. Helium Health’s flagship product is used by over 300 hospitals and serves 165,000 patients per month. His work through Helium Health has taken on even greater impact due to COVID-19 . Over 250 hospitals signed up to work with Helium Health in the spring of 2020 to gain access to Helium Teleclinic, a platform that enables brick and mortar hospitals to conduct televisits. The company continues to raise its profile, having recently raised $10 million in Series A round. For his work, Goke has been recognized as a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree, Future Africa Awards Honoree, and a recipient of several notable awards across the globe from Chevron, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, the State of Maryland, the 12

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Nigerian President, and more. Goke also serves as a Managing Partner of Magic Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm. Goke was invited to join the Delta Under 30 Advisory Board where members are tasked with re-imagining the passenger experience. Finally, Goke is passionate about helping the next generation of Hopkins engineers and has participated on student-facing panels on international careers and entrepreneurship. Kaitlyn Sadtler, Med ’16 Kaitlyn Sadtler is currently the Chief of the Section on ImmunoEngineering at the National Institutes of Health. She began her lab at NIBIB after a postdoc at MIT. There, she was awarded a Ruth L Kirschstein Fellowship for her work on immunology and tissue engineering. She completed her Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University where she showed a critical role for Th2-T cells in biomaterial-mediated muscle regeneration. Her research has been published in journals such as Science, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, and others. She was recognized as a 2018 TED Fellow and delivered a TED talk that has been viewed more than 2.4 million times and listed as one of the top-viewed talks of 2018. Dr. Sadtler was selected for the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Science and as a 2020 TEDMED Research Scholar. Since starting her laboratory as the only female PI in the main engineering institute of the NIH , Dr. Sadtler has lent her lab’s expertise to the fight against COVID-19 , launching the NIH Trans-IC Serologic Survey to determine the number of undiagnosed cases of COVID-19 in the United States via remote blood sampling and antibody testing. She was selected for a Special Act or Service award from the NIH that is rarely awarded to such young investigators.

Heritage Award Intended to honor alumni or friends of Johns Hopkins who have contributed outstanding service over an extended period to the progress of the University or the activities of the Association.

Jane Ball, Nurs ’69, ’74, BSPH ’78, ’80 Jane Ball has been a leader within the Johns Hopkins Nurses’ Alumni Association (JHNAA) and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Jane graduated from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1969 and received her BSN in 1974. She also received her MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1978 and 1980. Jane initially worked as a pediatric nurse and pediatric nurse practitioner in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After completing her public health degrees, she directed the federally funded Emergency Medical Services for Children National Resource Center, guiding state program managers in strategies to improve the emergency care of children on ambulances and in emergency departments. She also contributed to nursing education through the books she authored, including Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination, Principles of Pediatric Nursing, and Child Health Nursing. Jane is a consultant to the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, and Vice President for Nursing and Content Development for Triaj, a mobile app to guide the care of injured children for physicians and nurses. In October 2020, Jane was elected to her second term as the president of the JHNAA. She has served on the board of directors since 2014, and has been a consistent supporter of the School of Nursing since 1990. Donald Kerr, A&S ’73 Don Kerr has been an active volunteer for the university for many years. His most recent involvement includes membership on the Humanities Advisory Council, the Krieger School Dean’s Advisory Board, the Center for Financial Economics Advisory Council, and his reunion committee. Don is a Baltimore native, and his father was a member of the faculty in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the Krieger School. He cares

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deeply about the undergraduate experience and communicates often with faculty to ensure that students are having as valuable an experience as he did as an undergraduate. Don has contributed generously in support of undergraduate financial aid. In addition, he has volunteered more than once as a challenge match donor for Giving Tuesday to inspire other alumni to give back to their alma mater. Don attends all board and council meetings and always provides thoughtful and valuable feedback. He has been the lead fundraiser for the Class of 1973 Scholarship, and aspires for this to be the largest class scholarship ever raised. He is in regular communication with the development office and his classmates to garner additional support for the fund, and he works hard to find, cultivate, and solicit new prospects. He raises awareness for the need for financial aid philanthropy and signs a twice-annual solicitation letter to members of the class. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” — ARISTOTLE

Carl Liggio, Jr., Engr ’96, ’00, ’01 Carl Liggio is the co-founder and managing partner for Pharos Enterprise Intelligence, a company focused on the commercial management of power plants. Carl has been an active volunteer at Hopkins at every level. His dedication to the school started when he began serving on the Civil Engineering Advisory Committee, a position he still holds. His commitment to the Whiting School deepened when Carl joined the Society of Engineering Alumni Advisory Council (SEA) in 2001. Carl served on the council for over 14 years and served for two years as its president. Carl was instrumental with the transition from SEA to the Hopkins

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Engineering Alumni Leadership Committee. He served on the Leadership Committee for two-years before completing his term. Carl also helped develop the Hopkins Engineering Alumni Ambassadors program and encouraged the building of a stronger Whiting School community in New York. Carl has participated in the school’s mentoring program and continues to be available to students interested in pursuing careers in energy. Carl served on the Alumni Council for six years and on its Executive Committee. A longstanding supporter of athletics, he has served on the Blue Jays Unlimited Board since 1999. He also participated in the Leadership Fellows program while serving on the Whiting School Campaign Committee, developing strategies to help the school reach its ambitious campaign goal of $275 million. Carl is a generous donor to the Student Initiatives Fund, Fencing Team, and WSE Dean’s Leadership Fund. Bryan McMillan, Bus ’00, ’02 Bryan McMillan needs little introduction among the Hopkins Alumni Community. Bryan graduated from Carey Business School, then the School of Professional Studies in 2002 with a Masters of Business Management. Bryan has been an avid supporter of Hopkins since 2001, when he made his first gift, and has been a consecutive donor for nearly 20 years. In addition to his philanthropic support, he has been an active volunteer at Hopkins. His various roles have included member and chair of several sub-committees of the Alumni Council, the Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board at Carey Business School, and Alumni Association. During his time on the Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board, he was part of the group that made philanthropic support a requirement to serve on the board. Bryan has advised the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council and is exploring more ways to stay engaged as a volunteer at

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Hopkins. He was one of the first alumni to join the new Business Leadership Society at Carey Business School, and joined Carey’s inaugural NEXT Mentorship Program as a mentor for a full-time MBA student. Bryan is often one of the first volunteers the Carey Development Office contacts about initiatives, advice, or support. “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” — T H U RG O O D M A R S H A L L , F I R S T A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N U . S . S U P R E M E C O U RT M E M B E R

“Create change. Be the rising tide that lifts all boats.” — ADAPTED BY NINA AMIR, AUTHOR

Gail Ochs, Nurs ’65 Gail Ochs received her Nursing Diploma from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training Program in 1965. She has been a steadfast and fierce supporter of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing since 1985. Gail travels frequently and supports direct service opportunities internationally. Given this interest, in 2012 Gail and her husband Peter established the Gail Geiger Ochs and Peter Ochs PhD Global Scholarship Fund to benefit doctoral students studying global nursing. Mrs. Ochs is also a steady supporter of the Class of 1965 Endowed Scholarship, global nursing research programs, and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing building renovation. Thomas Pearson, A&S ’73, Med ’76, BSPH ’76, ’83 Thomas Pearson is an international leader in public health research and cardiovascular disease prevention, whose long relationship with the University has encompassed four degrees, two residencies, and investments of time and resources. He is a founding member of the World Heart 17

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Forum for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and has been a major contributor to the American Heart Association’s prevention guidelines. He has a special interest in observing heart disease trends and the extent to which guidelines are carried out, and he has lectured and published extensively on these topics. His scholarly contributions were recognized in 2009 when he was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. Mentoring, both received and given, has been a cornerstone of his career. In honor of more than three decades of excellence in mentoring, he received the American Heart Association Prevention Mentoring Award in 2019. Dr. Pearson continues to show his passion for investing in students through consistent financial support for students and fellows across the Schools of Medicine and the Public Health. He is currently exploring options to recognize the importance of preventive medicine at the Bloomberg School. He has been primary mentor to more than 70 students and junior faculty members, a number of whom have gone on to leadership positions in academia, government, and industry. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” — H A R RY S . T RU M A N

Linda Yau, Med ’94 Linda Yau graduated summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects as a College Scholar from Cornell University and loved her years of study at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed Internal Medicine residency on the Janeway “Firm of Giants” on the Osler Medical Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She joined the part time faculty of the Internal Medicine Department of Johns Hopkins Hospital and worked at the East Baltimore Medical Center. She spent time teaching medical students and residents on both the inpatient and outpatient services, in addition to her primary duties seeing patients in

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the clinic. In 1999, she joined Foxhall Internists, an internal medicine group located in Northwest Washington DC, where she currently practices. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and has been named to Washingtonian and Checkbook Magazine’s Best Doctors lists. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the Washington Clinicopathological Society, and one of the cofounders of the Lady Docs group which runs a website: Lady Docs Corner Café.com. She has been honored to serve as the Class Representative of the JHUSOM Class of 1994 and enjoyed coordinating the 25th reunion events including the class dinner and the 25th reunion talks as well as making the slideshows for the 20th and 25th reunions. She chaired the effort to establish the Hopkins Class of 1994 scholarship, which will become endowed this year, and she and her classmates are looking forward to meeting the scholarship students! “The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.” — SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Mary Zappone, Engr ’86 Mary Zappone is the CEO and Board Director of Sundyme, a position she took on starting in July 2021. Formerly, Mary served as the CEO and Board Director for BRACE Industrial Group. Through her impressive and busy professional roles, she continues to make Hopkins a priority. Today, Mrs. Zappone sits on the Advisory Board for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChemBE ) where she plays an integral part in advising the department head, Dr. Paulette Clancy.

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Mrs. Zappone was also an active member of her class’s 25th and 30th reunion committee and is currently serving as gift chair for her 35th reunion committee. Mrs. Zappone makes herself readily available to support current students. Most recently, she sat on a student-facing panel that featured alumni in Chemical Engineering professions, and was an invaluable resource to the students in attendance. She has also taught in the Financial Literacy intersession course for the last three years. Mrs. Zappone has been active as a volunteer in her local area as well as on the larger stage. Before her role on the ChemBE board, she was an active member of the Society of Engineering Alumni, WSE volunteer leadership group, and a local volunteer for the Houston Alumni Chapter. Mrs. Zappone has been a strong supporter of the University through her time, leadership, and philanthropy. Since graduation, she has consistently supported the Whiting School, the Young Alumni Fund, Blue Jays Unlimited, and more recently, the Whiting School Hopkins Fund.

Global Achievement Award Honors alumni who exemplify the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and have brought credit to the university and their profession in the international arena through their professional achievements or humanitarian service.

Anna Belle Illien, Nurs ’56 Anna Belle Illien has dedicated her life to helping vulnerable children anywhere in the world. Growing up in a small town in Kentucky, she considered her father as role model. He was a family doctor who served in WWII and treated families regardless of their ability to pay. Her life changed direction when she adopted a baby from India in 1980. When she saw the need of these children and saw that she could make a difference in their lives, she started an international adoption agency, Illien Adoptions International, Inc., in 1982. The Agency expanded its work all over the world and placed more than 2,500 children from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nepal, Cameroon, Colombia, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Nigeria, Honduras, Chile, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Ethiopia in permanent families in the US. Illien Adoptions is still licensed today, but international adoption has been negatively affected by current government restrictions. However, she has expanded her original discovery and concern for legally abandoned children to see a much broader scope of children in need, and she is now working with organizations whose mission is to serve vulnerable children. She serves as the only international consultant to an all-Indian national non-profit organization called the Children Foundation in New Delhi, India, and raises funds for it in the Indian community in the US. Now 85, she is committed to her mission to serve the vulnerable children in the world. “There is no such thing as failure.”

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Anne Rimoin, BSPH ’03 Anne W. Rimoin, is one of the world’s preeminent experts on global epidemiology and emerging infectious diseases. In November 2021, she was named to the new Gordon-Levin Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Her pioneering research in Central Africa has led to fundamental understandings of the re-emergence of human monkeypox virus in rural populations and long-term immune responses in Ebolavirus disease survivors, and yielded important discoveries, including the identification of new pathogens in populations at the animal-human interface. Dr. Rimoin has been a strong advocate for capacity building in low resource settings and conducting disease surveillance in complex emergencies. A leading voice on the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Rimoin appears frequently on television and radio and is a regular guest on local, national, and international news media including BBC, CNN, CNN international, MSNBC , Fox, and Fox Business News. In her home community, she is currently leading several COVID-19 studies including research on asymptomatic infection and immunity, occupational exposures, and vaccine hesitancy in health workers, first responders, and other essential worker populations. She directs the Center for Global and Immigrant Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where she is a Professor of Epidemiology. She has worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ) since 2002, where she founded the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training program to train U.S. and Congolese epidemiologists to conduct high-impact infectious disease research.

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Denise Rollins, SAIS ’88 After retiring from the U.S. Agency for International Development in October 2014, Denise Rollins rejoined USAID as the Senior Coordinator, Africa Ebola Unit Bureau for Africa in March 2015 to direct the Africa Bureau’s response to Ebola crisis. She chose to return to USAID because because because she felt a tremendous commitment to help those in need. Prior to retiring, she served as USAID’s Acting Assistant Administrator for Asia overseeing its Asia Bureau portfolio covering 32 countries in Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. The Bureau manages a complex portfolio of development programs of more than $1.2 billion. Ms. Rollins was a member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service attaining the rank of Minister Counselor, and has more than 25 years of international experience. Prior to her appointment to the Asia Bureau, Ms. Rollins was named in 2007 as USAID’s Mission Director in Bangladesh, where she provided executive leadership for four years to USAID’s largest development program in South Asia, implementing a $200 million assistance program in one of the United States’ most important partners in Asia. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” — M AY A A N G E L O U

Karen Schneider, Med ’02, BSPH ’05 Karen Schneider is a pediatrician and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. She teaches and focuses her practice on pediatric medicine in developing countries through a Tropical Medicine elective offered to pediatric residents and fellows. She is also a Sister of Mercy for 38 years. Karen earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. She completed a pediatric residency at Yale Children’s Hospital and a

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pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 2002. She then earned a Master of Public Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2008. Karen has received six honorary doctorates for her international medical work in the service of children, and in 2018, the Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Award. She coordinates the Pediatric Tropical Medicine elective, for which she supervises clinical experiences for residents in Haiti, Guyana, Kenya and Nigeria; lectures on tropical medicine to pediatric residents; coordinates shipping of supplies and medicines to out-of-country clinics; and updates out-of-country physicians and health workers on medical topics. In 2010 a pediatric surgeon joined the team and more than 1,800 surgeries have been provided for very poor children in remote regions. Her trips have provided disaster relief to Haiti in the flood of 2008 and earthquake 2010. In total Karen has worked in nine countries, and provided 66 international course trips for 350+ Hopkins pediatric residents, fellows, nurses and faculty. Karen’s tireless efforts have gained the attention of the national media. She has been featured on CBS News, CNS (Catholic News Service) and CNN , as well as in the National Catholic Reporter. In 2010, she was named “Person of the Week” by Washington D.C. area ABC news affiliate, WJLA . “My reason for doing these trips is twofold, to serve poor children and to open the eyes of the fortunate to the less fortunate,” she noted in a January 2014 National Catholic Reporter interview. “I long to make people a little more aware that children are suffering, and that, with just a little bit of money or a small intervention, their lives can be changed.” “While we place our confidence in God, we must act as if all depended on our exertion.” — M O T H E R C AT H E R I N E M C A U L E Y

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Keenan Wyrobek, Engr ’03 Keenan Wyrobek credits his time at Hopkins for helping him create Zipline, a medical product delivery company that designs, manufactures, and operates delivery drones. In addition to founding the company, he currently serves as the CTO and Product Architect. Keenan was motivated to start Zipline after learning about the medical conditions in under-resourced countries and the challenges physicians faced in helping patients because they lacked basic supplies. In some under-resourced countries, transportation networks are limited and medical deliveries are usually lost in transport. Keenan realized that drones could reach these areas. Today, the company has solidified its presence in Rwanda and begun expansion into Ghana, with plans to further expand into Africa and Latin America. In April of 2020, they began to move COVID-19 test samples. In May, the company partnered with Novant Health in North Carolina to start long-distance deliveries of PPE and critical medical supplies to frontline workers. The company has raised more than $225 million from some of the world’s top investors and a large grant from the UPS Foundation. The company also recently partnered with Walmart to create a first-of-its-kind drone delivery operation in the U.S . to facilitate the delivery of health and wellness products to areas with limited access. Keenan has also given back his time to Johns Hopkins. He has participated in several student-facing events and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World. His innovative work in robotics has disrupted the medical field and made the world rethink how medical supplies are delivered to difficult to access communities.

Public Service Award Intended to honor alumni of Johns Hopkins who have brought credit to the University by their current or recently concluded distinguished service to the public as elected or appointed officials.

Ruby Harvey, Bus ’96, ’05 Ruby Harvey recently retired as Executive Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. There she was responsible for programs that promote small business participation in VA procurements, with special emphasis on Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses and Veteran-Owned Small Businesses. She was a member of the United States Senior Executive Service, and has more than 25 years of acquisition, program management, finance, training, information technology, and human resources experience in the public and private sectors. Ruby has accomplished several initiatives during her time in the government, and was the 2018 recipient of the first annual Excellence in Innovation and Competitiveness Award from the White House Initiative on HBCU s. She also served as Chancellor of the VA Acquisition Academy, where she directed and oversaw the training of VA ’s acquisition workforce. Prior to joining VA , Ruby served in a senior leadership position with the United States Department of Agriculture as Chief, Procurement Systems Division in Washington, D.C. She recently joined Carey’s Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board and has been engaged as a speaker on panels and as a mentor to students.

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Dennis Lockhart, SAIS ’72 Dennis Lockhart is a Senior Fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Distinguished Professor-of-the-practice in Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, and a principal in Navigation Capital Partners, a private equity firm. Dennis was educated at Stanford University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he now serves as a member of their Board of Advisors. He also attended the Senior Executive Program at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Dennis also serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, on the board of directors of St. Joseph’s Health System, and is a trustee of Agnes Scott College and the Atlanta International School. He also chairs the World Affairs Council of Atlanta and the Midtown Alliance.

Distinguished Alumnus/a Award Intended to honor alumni, who have typified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to the University by their personal accomplishments, professional achievement, or humanitarian service.

Daniel Ahn, A&S ’00 Daniel Ahn serves as a Deputy Chief and federal prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice. Daniel trains new prosecutors and personally prosecutes a wide array of complex criminal matters, from domestic terrorism and public corruption to organized crime and human trafficking. Daniel has an unassailable reputation for integrity and is widely respected among defense attorneys for his empathy and compassion. His personal story is well known in the region: He grew up poor, fell in with the wrong crowd (getting kicked out of two high schools), and cared little for academics. However, through family and faith, he turned his life around: He excelled in college and graduate school at Hopkins, and graduated near the top of his law-school class at the elite University of Southern California, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review—the most prestigious honor a law student can receive. In addition, Daniel freely gives back to his community: He serves on the board of two community organizations, teaches part time at a local university (receiving the most outstanding lecturer award), and actively participates as a mentor to many young minority attorneys within and outside of the Justice Department. “Consider it pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” — JAMES 1:2-4

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Allison Barlow, BSPH ’97 Allison Barlow is a committed advocate and partner of Native American communities. She joined the Center for American Indian Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1991 and has served as director since 2016. Through the Center, she develops public health interventions with tribal communities to promote health equity. These programs employ Indigenous outreach workers who design, direct, and evaluate interventions with and for their communities. In spring 2020, Dr. Barlow and her team at the Center recognized that the living situations of many Native communities would place them at high risk for COVID-19 . They embedded their workforce with the Indian Health Service to do COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, vaccination, and extensive wraparound services, including delivery of food, water, medicines, hygiene kits, baby supplies, pet food, and other supplies. They created dozens of free resources for tribal communities, such as COVID-19 and vaccination data tracking tools, fact sheets, radio scripts, videos and social media posts. They continue to partner with Navajo Nation to address water insecurity and scale solutions to other tribal communities in need. Dr. Barlow’s leadership of the Center has also included the creation of the Family Spirit early childhood home-visiting program now active in more than 130 tribal communities; the Native Vision program that partners with professional athletes to promote Native American youth development; and, the Arrowhead youth entrepreneurship program. In addition, she helped launch the first-of-its kind graduate Public Health Training Certificate in American Indian Health at Johns Hopkins.

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Janice Bowie, BSPH ’97 Janice Bowie is a nationally recognized expert in health disparities and community-based research methods. Her collaborative research across Hopkins and the Baltimore community explores approaches that actively engage community partners to improve the health and wellbeing of their communities, which leads to the success and sustainability of communitybased interventions. One partnership has examined the unique association of spirituality and health in prevention and treatment decision making. Dr. Bowie’s multi-disciplinary approach brings together researchers from across Johns Hopkins and the communities the enterprise inhabits. She is core faculty in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, which connects research, programs, and resources from across the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing. She is also affiliated with the Urban Health Institute, which aims to strengthen and support collaborations between the Baltimore community and Johns Hopkins through community gatherings, capacity building workshops, neighborhood leadership programs, symposiums, and highlighting local research. In September of 2020, Dr. Bowie was named a Bloomberg Centennial Professor, an endowed position that is part of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the School of Public Health. She is a faculty member in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Bloomberg School where she also directs the schoolwide Doctor of Public Health degree program. Her leadership of the program has tripled enrollment, demonstrating her remarkable commitment to training and equipping a new generation of public health leaders who will tackle the challenges facing their communities.

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Martin Burke, A&S ’98 Martin Burke is a renowned professor and chemist focused on organic chemistry and chemical biology. Currently the May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he leads a university initiative called SHIELD for rapid-result COVID-19 saliva tests on campus. This new diagnostics test was authorized for emergency use by the FDA over the summer of 2019 and put into immediate practice. Students, faculty, and staff have been tested through this method twice weekly, with daily tests totaling up to 20,000 per day, or approximately 2% of the testing done in the entire country. SHIELD implemented testing twice per week due to their finding that this frequency is more likely to catch individuals within the window of transmission when they are most infectious and likely to spread the virus to others. Because the test utilizes saliva instead of nasal swab samples, the results are quicker, there are fewer specialized supplies required, and the process is up to 70% less expensive. Dr. Burke has been instrumental in leading the SHIELD initiative, which offers 14 on-campus testing stations and the ability to receive results through a university-created mobile app within five hours. In addition to his recent work with COVID-19 saliva tests, he is also the founder of four biotechnology companies – REVOLUTION Medicines, Ambys Medicines, Sfunga Therapeutics, and Cystetic Medicines – which are focused on cancer cell therapies, regenerating liver function and tissue, and clinical research for life-threatening fungal infections.

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Gary Darmstadt, Med ’92 Gary Darmstadt is a leading scholar, innovator, and one of the most important voices worldwide on strategies and interventions to save the lives and improve the health and development of young children in low- and middle-income countries globally. He trained in Pediatrics at JHU and led the creation and implementation of global research for the Saving Newborn Lives initiative at Save the Children, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF ). As a JHU faculty member, he established the only center in the USA dedicated to improving the health of mothers and newborns in developing countries. At BMGF , he led the development of global strategies for maternal, newborn and child health, nutrition, family planning, and gender equality, and has been instrumental in revitalizing and advancing global efforts in these areas. At the Stanford University School of Medicine, he founded the Global Center for Gender Equality and is Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health and Professor of Pediatrics. He has pioneered topical emollient therapy for preterm infants, improving neonatal growth, and reducing sepsis and mortality by 50% and 25%, respectively. He also played a leading role in development of newborn umbilical cord cleansing with chlorhexidine, cutting severe cord infections by 75% and neonatal deaths by 24%, and demonstrated that community-based care for mothers and newborns can reduce neonatal mortality by 30-50% in low resource settings. These findings have informed WHO recommendations and global practice, and when scaled-up could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year.

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Jason Farley, Nurs ’03, ’08 Jason Farley is a true nursing leader, consistently representing the nursing profession, Johns Hopkins University, and the School of Nursing in the media during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has been at the forefront of the pandemic, and has been interviewed a number of times by local news, radio stations, and research websites since the onset of the pandemic, providing information about vaccine updates and antibody testing. Dr. Farley was among the five representatives from Johns Hopkins University & Medicine during a congressional hearing in early March regarding the coronavirus. Dr. Farley is a trusted resource and has brought credit to the University, School of Nursing, and nursing profession. He is the director and founder of the REACH Institute at the School of Nursing, which launched in 2015 and leads evidence-based prevention, care, and support for those at-risk for or living with HIV in Maryland. In 2019, he was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, and he is the inaugural Leadership and Innovation Endowed Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Brian Garibaldi, Med ’04, Ed ’18 Brian Garibaldi is Director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit and Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Garibaldi is a top respiratory and critical care doctor who helped design a specialized ward to treat the sickest and most contagious patients in the country. The Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit opened in response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and served as a model for more units rushed into use for the most severe cases of COVID-19 . In addition to treating and advising on the care of COVID-19 patients, he has been researching the disease, including once as a participant in a trial of the drug hydroxychloroquine to see if it prevented coronavirus infections in those exposed. He helped found the

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Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for COVID-19 which has created prediction models for COVID patient trajectories, examined racial and ethnic disparities in COVID outcomes and conducted real-world effectiveness analyses for COVID therapeutics. When former President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 , Dr. Garibaldi was asked by the White House and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda to be a member of the President’s care team. He spoke in televised press conferences alongside the team of doctors giving an update on the President’s recovery. “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” – SIR WILLIAM OSLER

William Kaelin, Jr., Med ’84, ’86 William G. Kaelin, Jr., is the 2019 Nobel Prize recipient in medicine or physiology. Dr. Kaelin received his MD from Duke University in 1982 and was a house officer and chief resident in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a medical oncology clinical fellow at Dana-Farber and a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. David Livingston, where he began his studies of tumor suppressor proteins. He became an independent investigator at Dana-Farber in 1992, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2002. The 2019 Nobel was awarded jointly to Kaelin, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. He is the newest member to the Johns Hopkins Osler Advisory Board, joining in November 2019, and has been an active participant.

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Thomas Koenig, Med ’89 Thomas Koenig has spent the last 35 years at Johns Hopkins, with the exception of his internship year at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1989, and after internship, he returned for residency and chief residency in psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Upon joining the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry in 1994, Dr. Koenig became the director of the psychiatry clerkship, a position he maintained for 10 years. In 2005, he received the George J. Stuart Award, a recognition given annually to a member of the faculty chosen as the outstanding clinical teacher by graduating medical students. In addition to his roles with students, Dr. Koenig is a dedicated clinician in the Johns Hopkins Community Psychiatry Program’s Hispanic Clinic, providing mental health services for individuals of Hispanic origin in Maryland. Without doubt, though, it is as associate dean for medical student affairs that he has made the greatest impact. Over 16-plus years, Dr. Koenig has advised nearly 2,000 medical students, shaping the next generation of healers and leaders in medicine. His compassionate and gentle approach has helped students navigate medical school and professional life. Many will immediately recall his broad smile each year as he celebrates the students’ accomplishments at convocation, and his meticulous pronunciation of each student’s name. He recently retired; his impact as an adviser and passionate advocate for medical students will be impossible to replace. Wui-Chiang Lee, BSPH ’02, ’05 Wui-Chiang (John) Lee received an MD in Taiwan and then an MHS (2002) and PhD (2005) from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Currently he is the Director of the Department of Medical Affairs and Planning at

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the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan. During the past year, Wui-Chiang has made an extraordinary effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan and to support Johns Hopkins. As part of the leadership team guiding the prestigious medical center through its own COVID-19 response, he appreciated early last winter how critical masks are to keeping healthcare providers and others safe. When he discovered that Hopkins was experiencing shortages, he worked with several Taiwanese donors to coordinate the manufacture, purchase and shipment of 100,000 facemasks to the campus in Baltimore. In 2003, while a PhD student at the School of Public Health, Wui-Chiang worked with faculty and fellow Taiwanese students to draft a comprehensive SARS epidemic control program, which was adopted almost in its entirety by the Taiwanese government. Taiwan’s experience with SARS created the groundwork for their recent successful effort to combat COVID-19 . Wui-Chiang explains how grateful he is for his Hopkins training that helped him and his fellow Taiwanese public health and medical community members manage COVID-19 and SARS . He writes, “I am honored to have an opportunity to pay back my alma mater when she needs me.” “The wise are not misled, the benevolent are not worried, and the brave are not afraid.” – THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS

Lisa Maragakis, Med ’98, BSPH ’07 Lisa Maragakis is an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Maragakis is the Senior Director of Infection Prevention at The Johns Hopkins Health System, and the Hospital Epidemiologist for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In these roles, she is responsible for the conceptualization, planning, implementation, and

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development of the Johns Hopkins Health System’s infection control and prevention program. Her research interests are the epidemiology, prevention and control of healthcare-acquired infections and antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative bacilli. Dr. Maragakis serves as the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Biocontainment Unit and as Incident Commander for the Johns Hopkins Medicine COVID-19 response. Dr. Maragakis has been at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic and has served as the face of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s response to this health crisis. She also serves as the IDSA Co-Chair for the 2014 and 2020 Updates of the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare Associated Infections, and as the Co-Chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. J. Mario Molina, Med ’87 Mario Molina’s service to Johns Hopkins Medicine is unparalleled as a University Trustee, Chair of the Osler Advisory Board, and generous supporter of the Molina Scholars through the physician-scientist pathway in the Osler Medical Residency Program. Dr. Molina has funded three professorships in the School of Medicine – the C. David Molina Professorship in the Welch Center, the Myron L. Weisfeldt Professor of Medicine in the Osler Residency Program, and the J. Mario Molina Professorship in the History of Medicine. However, Dr. Molina’s vision and funding for the physician scientist pathway in the Residency Program will have a lasting impact because of the power of and translational science on human health. In addition to his service to Johns Hopkins, Dr. Molina was named the Founding Dean of the KGI School of Medicine, a member of the Claremont Colleges, in 2019. Dr. Molina is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Molina Healthcare,

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a FORTUNE 500 company founded by his physician father in 1980 to provide health care to low income individuals receiving benefits through government programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare. Through his generosity, Dr. Molina has secured his legacy and commitment to Johns Hopkins Medicine. The impact will resonate for decades to come. Jennifer Nuzzo, BSPH ’14 Jennifer Nuzzo is an epidemiologist and researcher lending her experience to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Dr. Nuzzo is a Senior Scholar at the Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, and director of the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response in partnership with frontline public health practitioners. Her newly visible and timely work focuses on pandemic preparedness, outbreak detection and response, health systems as they relate to global health security, bio surveillance, and infectious disease diagnostics. This work is not only critical to our fight against COVID-19 , but will also serve the world through continued vigilance and preparation. Dr. Nuzzo shares her expertise on pandemic preparedness and response widely and regularly, from leading news outlets to national governments and for-profit and non-profit organizations. She is the lead epidemiologist for the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Testing Insights Initiative, housed within the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, and co-leads the development of the first-ever Global Health Security Index. Through her deft use of social media and appearances across traditional media, she reinforces valuable and useful information in an easily digestible format. Dr. Nuzzo is a credible, trusted voice of public health during a time when our world is looking for guidance, answers, and hope.

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Payal Patel, A&S ’05 Payal Patel attended Hopkins as a recipient of the Yaffe scholarship and was President of the Class of 2005, graduating with a BS in Public Health. Following graduation, she spent a year in Kenya on a grant investigating breastfeeding. At the University of Texas Health Science Center, she was President of the Medical Class of 2010 and received her M.D. with Distinction in Research. She completed her residency at UTHSC in 2013 in internal medicine. She then enrolled in Harvard School of Public Health for a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, and completed a fellowship in Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Patel is a physician with the VA Healthcare System, an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, and member of The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. An author of 60+ publications, Dr. Patel’s training and research experience put her in the forefront of COVID-19 response efforts. Her research played a critical role in developing treatment guidelines, optimizing the use of antibiotics, and the diagnostic stewardship of COVID-19 testing. Dr. Patel has appeared on NBC Nightly News, BBC World News, and NPR discussing infection prevention and vaccine trials. She is an active supporter of JHU , serving on the executive board of the Second Decade Society, and chairing the Meg Walsh Award Selection Committee. She serves on her reunion committee, and is an alumni admissions interviewer and a mock interviewer for medical school interviews for pre-med students. “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to great, broader, and fuller life. — W. E . B . D U B O I S

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Raymond Reid, BSPH ’81 Raymond Reid earned an MPH from JHSPH in 1981, completed a Preventive Medicine Residency in 1982, and joined the JHSPH faculty thereafter. He received his MD from the University of Utah in 1979. Among the first Native American physicians trained in public health, he has applied this knowledge to life-saving work with Native American populations for 40 years, including the White Mountain Apache, San Carlos Apache, Hopi, and Navajo tribes. Working and living on both the White Mountain Apache and Navajo reservations since 1983, he has made outstanding contributions to the health of Native populations that have scaled to the globe, saving millions of children’s lives, including: landmark studies on Oral Rehydration Solution and treatment of diarrheal diseases that have changed international policies; pivotal studies to prove new vaccines for H. influenzae type B (H ib), Pneumococcal disease and Rotavirus that affected Native children at higher rates. These vaccines are now the standard of care throughout the world. He co-founded the Center for American Indian Health’s Training program, through which he has mentored hundreds of Native American health care workers and researchers. Dr. Reid, as the first Navajo alumnus of Johns Hopkins, has combined the highest standards of excellence with a humanitarian compassion that knows no bounds. He has been singularly focused on promoting health and educational equity for Native Americans, who have suffered the most deep-seeded disparities in the US . Susan Shurin, Med ’71 Susan Shurin was deputy director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI ) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH ). As deputy director, Dr. Shurin represented the NHLBI in a wide variety of activities across the NIH and the Department of Health and Human

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Services. Dr. Shurin joined the NHLBI as deputy director in February 2006, coming from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In October 2009, she assumed the role of acting director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD ) while continuing to serve as the deputy director of NHLBI . In December 2009, Dr. Shurin was named acting director of the NHLBI and served in this role until August 2012. As acting director, she oversaw an extensive national research portfolio with an annual budget of approximately $3 billion. Through the support of research from bench to bedside, Dr. Shurin led the NHLBI ’s effort to transform new scientific knowledge into tangible improvements in health. “The lessons of our 50th and 51st postgraduate years have hammered home the key themes of our medical education: observation and discovery based on caring for patients are the key to improving public and private lives and health. The responsibilities we assume as physicians carry awesome opportunities.” Ted (Edgar) Sniffin, Bus ’97 Ted Sniffin is a Fortune 500 business leader, who has led strategy, market development, and delivery of portfolios of up to $300 million in annual revenue, providing consulting, analytics, digital, cyber, and solutions to U.S. Defense and Civil Agency clients. He spent over 20 years as an executive at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he led business development for Booz Allen’s U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and Civil Agencies. He directed management consulting, large-scale transformation, strategic planning, reorganization, business process reengineering and automation, and change management engagements. Ted has been recognized as a GovCon Washington 100 leader, one of “the most influential and impactful executives of consequence at the intersection of government and industry.” Currently, he leads global bid and capture/global growth

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for the Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector business, comprised of the U.S. Federal, International, State and Local, Educational, and Non-profit market sectors. He is a former member of Carey’s Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board and is a Carey Executive in Residence. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” —PHILIPPIANS 4:13

Allen Y. Wang, Engr ’06, ’08 Allen Y. Wang is the Global Technical Lead at Ethicon Biosurgery, a medical device subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. In 2008, after obtaining his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, Allen joined Johnson & Johnson Wound Management R&D and quickly set the standard of excellence. He holds over 70 patents and had developed several innovative surgical products to save countless lives. His most recent Class III invention, SURGICEL Powder Absorbable Hemostat, has been widely adopted by surgeons to serve numerous patients in more than 40 countries since its launch in late 2017. He received a 2020 Johnson Medal, the most prestigious award within J&J, and several renowned international awards such as Gold Medical Design Excellence Award and R&D 100 Award. Currently, Allen continues to work with worldwide J&J divisions to expand the Biosurgery product portfolio, and to create novel products to address surgical unmet needs. During his tenure at J&J, Allen has always been committed to giving back to his community as a mentor. He actively seeks internship opportunities for Hopkins students as well as supports other local high school and college students with development opportunities. He also serves on the board of directors of the

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Taiwanese American Association of Biotechnology with strong devotion to ensuring the broadened collaborations between the United States and other nations in biotechnological development. Allen is truly a leader in the medical device field and has displayed an unyielding dedication to the transformation of patient care. “Innovation can come from anyone or anywhere.” “It is ok to fail, but we need to learn from it.”

Acknowledgments The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association would like to thank the 2020-2021 members of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Council’s Awards and Nominations Committee. This committee determined the slate of 2021 award recipients for presentation to the Alumni Council’s Executive Committee. Johns Hopkins Alumni Council 2020-2021 Awards and Nominations Committee Co-Chairs Brian Fruchey, Bus ’10 Ralph Hruban, Med ’85 Committee Members Sara Abiusi, Engr ’96 Lou Bartolo, Nurs ’18 Eric Brown, Engr ’88, Bus ’93 Anne Cronin, SAIS ’14 Cheree Davis, Ed ’15 William Greenberg, A&S ’64 Allyson Handley, Ed ’75, ’78 Daniela Kaisth, SAIS Europe ’89, A&S ’90 Shelby Kemper, BSPH ’16 Rhonda Richetta, Ed ’06 Sita Sonty, SAIS ’02 Shelby Wilkes, Med ’75 Joseph Yoon, A&S ’00

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